Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

[YunQiang Su]

Hi, folks,
due to lack of enough man power and build machines for 3 mips* port at
the same time, I think that now it is time for us to have a talk about
dropping mips32eb support now.

mips32eb, named mips, in our namespace, is used by few people now, at
least compare with mipsel/mips64el.

The reason we keep it till now is
1) some people are still using it.
2) it is the only port 32bit and EB now.

In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's mips32eb port.
If you are using it, please tell us.

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

You should ask in a more public forum rather than on Debian mailing lists if you want to know about potential users.

Adrian

Post by YunQiang Su
Hi, folks,
due to lack of enough man power and build machines for 3 mips* port at
the same time, I think that now it is time for us to have a talk about
dropping mips32eb support now.
mips32eb, named mips, in our namespace, is used by few people now, at
least compare with mipsel/mips64el.
The reason we keep it till now is
1) some people are still using it.
2) it is the only port 32bit and EB now.
In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's mips32eb port.
If you are using it, please tell us.

[Stefan Monnier]

Post by YunQiang Su
In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's mips32eb port.

IIUC this `mips32eb` port is the one called just "mips".

I'm using it on my BT HomeHub 5

https://openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v5a?s[]=homehub

It's one of the very few devices which satisfy:
- includes a DSL modem
- includes a wifi more modern than 11g
- supported by OpenWRT, including the DSL and the wifi

AFAICT this hardware can't be used with anything else than `mips32eb`.


Stefan